The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-11
RAILROAD NOTES.

JACKSON (Miss) Clarioq: The iuspec-
ton Of the railroads in this State by
the Railroad Commission is beginning
to bear fruit. "
"TvE got a rosd," says Ben Butler,
ION which it is impossible for a tain
TO u off the track" Ben's railroad
is not unlike his railroad aspirations.
A TRAIN moving at the rate Of tbir-
ty-fve miles an hour will clear fifty
teet in one second, and people seeing
the train coming can see what chance
they have in crossing ahead Of it.
Yet some try.
The line of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, from New Orleans
10 San Francisco, lacks only five miles
OF being 2500 miles in length, the
longest continuous line Of rails owned
and operated by any one company at
present in the world.
The Ship Island Miss railway will
pass through or near ten county
towns: Augusta, in Perry county;
Raleigh, ia Smith county; Forest, in
Scott county; Carthage, in Leake
county; Chester, in Choctaw county;
Houston, in Chickssaw county; Pom
totoc, in Pontotoc county New Al
hany, in Union county; Ripley, in
Tippah county.
sEARoY (Ark.) Wheel: Work on the
Little Rock and Hot Springs railroad
will commence soon. The negotis-
tons are all progressing very satisiac.
torily The track Of the Fsyette-
vile and Little Rock railroad is O
laid to the Madison county line, a dis
tance OF sixteen miles. .......I 1t is only
a question Of a short time until a road
will be built from Little Rock east to
the ST.. L,u.s, arkansas and Texas
railroad.
The Carthaginian, Lsake county,
Miss, laments the absence OF a rail-
road there, aud says: Just think of il!
Seventy-fVe thousand dollars a year is
what we lose by not having a railroad !!
In the past ten years it cot us $780,
600, and since 1872, when we became
a citizen OF Leake, the loss to the
county has been $1,000, 000-more
than all the real and personal o
eriy OF the county is valued at on the
assessment rolls.
The Ship Island railroad was char
tered in 1858. 1t is now chartered to
run north to Jackson, Tenn, a dis
lance of over 1875 miles, where it
will connect with the Illinois Central,
the Mobile and Ohio and with the
new road to Evansville, Iud., con-
Meeting with Chicago. The route runs
for 100 miles through the flnest pine
timber land in the South. The point
at which the road will strike the gulf
has not yet been selected.
STARKvnLE Miss Citizen: The rail-
road connections we have secured
have made Starkville one of the FORE
most towns in Est Mississippi and
Oktibbeha n of the best counties in
the State. ..... The Mobile and Ohio has
about completed bsllasting its road
bed from Starkville to Columbus with
gravel. ... With the road from here to
Columbus in this condition; with the
gap between Columbus and Birming-
ham nearing completion; with three
grand trunk railroads at our very
doors-the Mobile and Ohio, Georgia
Pacific and Illinois Central-who can
estlulhIe Jue IuIure OF our
town and county?
JACKSON Miss J Clarion: The gene
raj manager of the Louisville, New
Orleans and Texas Railroad Company
has notified the Commission that the
management has caused the addition
al accommodations required by the
Commission at Arcols, Erwin, Long
wood, Wayside, Saltwater and Ma
genta to be supplied. The Illinois
Central Company has ordered the
erection ola brick depot at Summit,
and a new depot at Pickens. Even
the rebelliousV icksburg and Meridian
has notified the Commission that bu!-
letin boards and additional accommo-
dations at Lake, Hickory and Newton
will be supplied in accordance with
its directions,